NEW BOOK - Lev’s Violin, an Italian Adventure
Particular Books, 2021.
“Whether it be a distant family history, the timber forests of the Dolomites or a momentary encounter, Attlee captures it in firm, fresh prose.”
GRAHAM ELLIOTT - THE SPECTATOR.
Mount Etna, Sicily
HELENA ATTLEE
I have been an habitué of Italy’s loveliest cities and landscapes for over forty years. And yet my real interest has always been in getting beyond the familiar façade of beautiful places and delicious food to lesser-known aspects of Italian culture. This has been the inspiration for both my most recent books, Lev’s Violin, An Italian Adventure and The Land Where Lemons Grow, The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit. I am currently writing a new book set in Sicily.
“It amounts to an original and refreshingly unorthodox approach to history.”
JAMES MACKAY - THE GUARDIAN.